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noun
- Movement into a crossed position.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
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- with a forward motion
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration
- in a state required for something to function or be effective
- (infrequent in the US) Later.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
- (snooker) Of a ball, into a pottable position.
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
- To an operating state.
adj
- in operation or operational
- (of events) planned or scheduled
- (euphemistic) Menstruating.
- (chiefly UK, informal, chiefly in the negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
- (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
- (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
- (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
- (chiefly in the negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
- Fitted; covering or being worn.
- (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
- (e.g. of points in a game) Available; remaining.
- (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
noun
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- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- At or in (a geographical location or position).
- At (a relative spatial position).
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Serving as a member of.
- Under the influence of (a drug, or something that is causing drug-like effects).
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- (snooker) In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).
- (also often 'upon') Arrived or coming into the presence of.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At (an instant or cusp).
- Aboard (a mode of transport, especially public transport, or transport that one sits astride or uses while standing).
- Expressing figurative placement, burden, or attachment.
- At (a certain position within a sequence).
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything By means of; with.
- Covering.
- (mathematics) Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- (mathematics, uncommon) Divided by.
- (especially Ireland) Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- (UK) At (a certain value or level).
- With verbs describing an action of pushing, pulling, pressing, etc., designates the thing to which force is applied.
- (also often 'upon') At the time of (and often because of).
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Because of; upon the basis of (something not yet confirmed as true).
- (informal) In the possession of.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- (philosophy, logic) According to, from the standpoint of; (expressing what must follow, whether accepted or not, if a given premise or system is assumed true).
- (UK, especially in sports reporting) At (a given time after the start of something).
- Near; adjacent to; alongside; just off.
- Paid for by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- (especially when numbers of combatants or competitors are specified) Against; in opposition to.
- At or during the date or day of.
- (mathematics) Having as identical domain and codomain.
- (nautical) In the direction of (some part of one's vessel), to within 45 degrees.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Indicating a means of subsistence or sustenance.
- (mathematics) Generated by.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- (informal, chiefly in set phrases) Ellipsis of I swear on: on my life, on God, on everything, etc.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
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- move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
- cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
- propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- give an incentive for action
- be in a state of action
- dispose of by selling
- go or proceed from one point to another
- progress by being changed
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- follow a procedure or take a course
- arouse sympathy or compassion in
- change residence, affiliation, or place of employment
- live one's life in a specified environment
- (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- (transitive) To transport (an item) as part of changing residences.
- (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- (transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- (transitive, programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).
- (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place; similarly to change the location of another establishment such as a business. See also move out and move in.
- (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
- (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- (transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
noun
- the act of changing your residence or place of business
- (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game
- the act of deciding to do something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- (syntax) Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- A change in strategy.
- (board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
- The event of changing one's residence.
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- (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
- To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
- To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
- be superior or better than some standard
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
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- (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
- the act of moving forward suddenly
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A fish, the namaycush.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
verb
- make a thrusting forward movement
- push forcefully
- penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
- press or force
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- place or put with great energy
- push violently in a specified direction
- force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
- (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
- To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
- (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
- (intransitive) To make advance with force.
- (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- (transitive) To force something upon someone.
noun
- verbal criticism
- the act of applying force to propel something
- the force used in pushing
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
- (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
- (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
- A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
prefix
- Vertical or upright in movement.
- (chemistry) Having an extra proportion of water.
- (crystallography) Orthorhombic crystal structure.
- (physics) Of any molecule of the form X₂ in which the two nuclei have parallel spin.
- Independent, separate.
- (organic chemistry) In isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in adjacent (1,2) positions (compare meta- and para-).
- Original, primary.
- Normal, ordinary.
- Right angle, perpendicular.
- Proper, righteous, pure.
- (medicine) Orthopaedics.
- Same, from the same.
- Parallel lines or columns.
- To correct or fix.
- Straight in form.
- (geology) Igneous.
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- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- (nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
- (intransitive) To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
- (intransitive, chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
- (intransitive) To tilt or lean while in motion.
- (nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.
- (intransitive, chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
noun
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- charge with a tilt
- heel over
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- (intransitive) To be at an angle.
- (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- (intransitive, jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- (pinball, of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- (figurative) To modify one's approach.
- (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
noun
- a slight but noticeable partiality
- a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- pitching dangerously to one side
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- A slope or inclination.
- (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- (uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A tilt hammer.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
verb
- make a jump forward or upward
- jump lightly
- traverse as if by a short airplane trip
- jump across
- move quickly from one place to another
- travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
- (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
- (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
- (transitive) To jump onto, or over
- (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
- (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
- (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
- (informal) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
- (intransitive) To gather hops.
noun
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- an informal dance where popular music is played
- (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- (informal, figurative) A brief period of development or progress.
- (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
- A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
- (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
- A jump on one leg.
- A short jump.
- A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- (Internet) Synonym of half-op.
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
noun
- A sudden forward motion.
- (university slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
- General haste.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- (military, video games) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A wick.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A surge.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- (university slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
- a sudden forceful flow
- a sudden burst of activity
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
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- (transitive or intransitive, university slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
- (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
- (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
- (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
- (transitive, military) To swiftly attack without warning.
- (intransitive, military, video games) To make a swift or sudden attack.
- act at high speed
- move hurridly
- run with the ball, in football
- cause to occur rapidly
- attack suddenly
- urge to an unnatural speed
- cause to move fast or to rush or race
noun
- alternating back-and-forth movement
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of making or doing something in return
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
adj
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- of a path e.g.
noun
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- the act of winding or twisting
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- A wobbling motion.
- (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
- (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
- (British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
- A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
- the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
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- (intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
- (transitive, of the eyebrows) To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
- (transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
- move from side to side
- move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- cause to move back and forth
- be excellent or outstanding
- (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
- (intransitive) To have people dancing and enjoying rock music.
- (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- To pelt with rocks; to stone.
- (intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.
- (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
- (slang, ambitransitive, euphemistic) To make love to or have sex (with).
- (intransitive, stative) To be cool.
- (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
noun
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- pitching dangerously to one side
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- (countable) Distaff.
- (CB radio slang) A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
- (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- The striped bass.
- (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
- (informal, cricket) A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- The huss or rock salmon.
- (British, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- (colloquial) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- (US, basketball, slang) A basketball.
- (South Africa, slang, derogatory) An Afrikaner.
- (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- (US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
- (curling) Synonym of stone.
- (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- (music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
- (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- get rid of
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
noun
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- cause to move back and forth
- win approval or support for
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- (transitive) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
- To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
- (transitive) To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
- To have weight or influence.
- (intransitive) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
- (transitive) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; to warp.
- To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
noun
- controlling influence
- pitching dangerously to one side
- A rocking or swinging motion.
- Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- Rule; dominion; control; power.
- (automotive) The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
- Synonym of sweet flag (“Acorus calamus”)
- Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
- A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
adj
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adv
verb
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
verb
adj
- (anatomy, zootomy) Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- At the same level in hierarchy or rank, especially pertaining to a movement that does not involve a change in rank, status, or level.
- (physics) Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (phonetics, phonology) (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to speech sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tongue, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
- (pathology) Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- (UK) Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- situated at or extending to the side
- lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body
noun
- A lateral canal, a canal built alongside an existing stream.
- (American football) A lateral pass.
- (business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- (linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer
noun
adj
verb
verb
- move by turning over or rotating
- boil vigorously
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- show certain properties when being rolled
- flatten or spread with a roller
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- begin operating or running
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- shape by rolling
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- (ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
- (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
- (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
- (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
- (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
- (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
- (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- (intransitive, video games) To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
- (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- (transitive) To create a customized version of.
- (ergative, slang) To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
- (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.
- (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- (programming) To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (computing) To generate a random number.
- (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
- (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- (ergative) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.
- (transitive, music) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
- (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
- (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
noun
- walking with a swaying gait
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- a list of names
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- the act of throwing dice
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- (programming) An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (firefighting) A 14-day deployment.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- That which is rolled up.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
verb
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
verb
noun
verb
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- cancel officially
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- rule against
- change radically
- (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
- (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
- (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
noun
noun
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
- (politics, informal) An increase in popularity.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Drugs.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
- (slang) The sack, dismissal.
- (quantum mechanics) A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Swagger.
- (uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- (horse racing, slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
- rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
verb
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, sometimes followed by with) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (transitive, electronics, computing) To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- (transitive, music, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- (music, technology) To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
- (ergative, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- (horse racing, slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
- (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
- (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To move rapidly (between).
- (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
- leap suddenly
- hit something so that it bounces
- eject from the premises
- come back after being refused
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- move up and down repeatedly
- refuse to accept and send back
noun
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- (mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- (military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
adv
verb
- (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- (transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- (transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- (economics) To execute a commodities market spread.
- (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- sit or stand astride of
- be noncommittal
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
adj
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
adv
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
verb
- shift or move by taking a step
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To dance.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
noun
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
adv
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.
- On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- in the area or vicinity
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- all around or on all sides
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
adj
prep
- (figurative) On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.
- On one’s person; nearby the person.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.
verb
prefix
- Moving from one side to the other; across.
- Alternate, different.
- Perpendicular in angle; transverse.
- (figurative) Moving from one track or state to another.
- Located in between. Often, but not necessarily, forming an H-shaped structure.
- Involving two or more at the same time; coincident.
- Comparing two sources of information, often to verify their contents.
- Shaped like a cross or X; crossing lines.
- On the opposite side of.
- Moving or acting against, opposing, contrary.
- To combine two entities to create a hybrid.
- More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.
- Mutual exchange or influence, where both entities are affected in the same way. Mutuality.
- One entity affecting a similar entity, such as to transfer of one property from one entity to the other.
noun
verb
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- remove oneself from an obligation
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make (someone) take a less aggressive position.
- (idiomatic) To withdraw from a commitment or position; back out.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- remove oneself from an obligation
- (idiomatic) To become less aggressive, particularly when one had appeared committed to act.
- (idiomatic) To lower the setting of.
- (literally) To move backwards away from something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, off.
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- establish as valid or genuine
- become or cause to become obstructed
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, of a blockage) To halt the flow or movement of something.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, informal) To fill up because of a backlog.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) If a property backs up to another property, that means it abuts or shares a border with another property.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.
verb
- move in an abrupt or headlong manner
- throw or cast away
- indulge oneself
- throw with force or recklessness
- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
- (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
noun
- a usually brief attempt
- a brief indulgence of your impulses
- the act of flinging
- An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
- (figuratively) An attempt, a try.
- A party, especially a dance party.
- A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
- An act of throwing, often violently.
- An act or period of unrestrained indulgence, enthusiasm, or both.
- (dance) A lively Scottish country dance.
noun
- a backward somersault
- an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
- a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- A change of places; an inversion or swap.
- The sound of a regular footfall.
- (US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
- (computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
- (US, slang, truck driving) A return trip.
- A somersault.
- (US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
verb
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noun
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
verb
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To disable; to impede.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- hamper the action or progress of
verb
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
noun
adj
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- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- While doing an activity involving (something), especially while consuming.
- (informal, for 'over at/in/on') At or near (a location seen as 'across' from the speaker's location).
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Across, from one side to the other.
- Expressing causation: due to, as the result of.
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- To a greater degree than.
- On the other side of.
- In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- Through or around all the parts of.
- Across (something) and then downwards.
- (mathematics) Divided by.
- Concerning or regarding.
- Above; higher than; further up than.
- (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- (music, more common in speech) Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
- During or throughout (a time period).
- More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.
- On top of; in such a way as to cover.
- (in certain collocations) As compared to.
- Across, so as to pass above.
- Through or via (a particular transmission medium).
adv
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
- Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
- So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
- On top of something, or so as to cover something.
- (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Across from one side of something to the other.
- Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
- So as to pass above.
- (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
- So as to fold towards or onto itself.
- From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
- See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
- So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
- Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
- Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
- To a future time.
- beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position
- at or to a point across intervening space etc.
- throughout a period of time
- over the entire area
- throughout an area
adj
- (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
- (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.
- (botany) Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- Having surmounted an obstacle.
- Surplus to requirements.
- Finished; ended; concluded.
- (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.
- having come or been brought to a conclusion
intj
noun
- (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
- (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
- (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- elevate onto skids
- apply a brake or skid to
- slide without control
- (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
- (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
- (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
noun
- a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- an unexpected slide
- one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
- (Internet slang) A stepchild.
- A pallet.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
- (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- (sports) A losing streak.
- (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A runner of a sled.
- (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
- (intransitive) To skid.
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
- simple past of slay
- (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
- (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
- (intransitive) To pivot.
- (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
noun
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- move smoothly along a surface
- (transitive) To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- (intransitive, finance) To decrease in amount or value.
- (music) To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- (intransitive, slang) To go; to move from one place or to another.
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
noun
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- sloping channel through which things can descend
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- (Australia, informal) Removable rank insignia worn on epaulettes of army uniform.
- Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”).
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (footwear) A sandal that is backless and open-toed.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (vulgar slang) A promiscuous woman, slut.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A mechanism, or portion of one, consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
noun
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
noun
- Movement into a crossed position.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
- To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
- To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
- be superior or better than some standard
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
noun
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A sudden forward motion.
- (university slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
- General haste.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- (military, video games) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A wick.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A surge.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- (university slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
- a sudden forceful flow
- a sudden burst of activity
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
adj
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, university slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
- (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
- (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
- (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
- (transitive, military) To swiftly attack without warning.
- (intransitive, military, video games) To make a swift or sudden attack.
- act at high speed
- move hurridly
- run with the ball, in football
- cause to occur rapidly
- attack suddenly
- urge to an unnatural speed
- cause to move fast or to rush or race
noun
- alternating back-and-forth movement
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of making or doing something in return
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
noun
- A wobbling motion.
- (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
- (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
- (British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
- A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
- the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
- (transitive, of the eyebrows) To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
- (transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
- move from side to side
- move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
adj
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adv
verb
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
- (politics, informal) An increase in popularity.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Drugs.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
- (slang) The sack, dismissal.
- (quantum mechanics) A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Swagger.
- (uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- (horse racing, slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
- rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
verb
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, sometimes followed by with) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (transitive, electronics, computing) To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- (transitive, music, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- (music, technology) To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
- (ergative, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- (horse racing, slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
- (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
- (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To move rapidly (between).
- (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
- leap suddenly
- hit something so that it bounces
- eject from the premises
- come back after being refused
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- move up and down repeatedly
- refuse to accept and send back
noun
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- (mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- (military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
adv
verb
- (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- (transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- (transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- (economics) To execute a commodities market spread.
- (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- sit or stand astride of
- be noncommittal
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
adj
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
adv
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
noun
verb
noun
- a backward somersault
- an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
- a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- A change of places; an inversion or swap.
- The sound of a regular footfall.
- (US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
- (computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
- (US, slang, truck driving) A return trip.
- A somersault.
- (US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
verb
noun
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
verb
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To disable; to impede.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- hamper the action or progress of
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- get rid of
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
noun
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
verb
- move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
- cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
- propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- give an incentive for action
- be in a state of action
- dispose of by selling
- go or proceed from one point to another
- progress by being changed
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- follow a procedure or take a course
- arouse sympathy or compassion in
- change residence, affiliation, or place of employment
- live one's life in a specified environment
- (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- (transitive) To transport (an item) as part of changing residences.
- (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- (transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- (transitive, programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).
- (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place; similarly to change the location of another establishment such as a business. See also move out and move in.
- (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
- (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- (transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
noun
- the act of changing your residence or place of business
- (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game
- the act of deciding to do something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- (syntax) Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- A change in strategy.
- (board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
- The event of changing one's residence.
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noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
- the act of moving forward suddenly
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A fish, the namaycush.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
verb
- make a thrusting forward movement
- push forcefully
- penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
- press or force
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- place or put with great energy
- push violently in a specified direction
- force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
- (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
- To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
- (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
- (intransitive) To make advance with force.
- (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- (transitive) To force something upon someone.
noun
- verbal criticism
- the act of applying force to propel something
- the force used in pushing
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
- (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
- (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
- A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
noun
verb
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- (nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
- (intransitive) To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
- (intransitive, chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
- (intransitive) To tilt or lean while in motion.
- (nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.
- (intransitive, chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
noun
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- charge with a tilt
- heel over
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- (intransitive) To be at an angle.
- (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- (intransitive, jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- (pinball, of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- (figurative) To modify one's approach.
- (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
noun
- a slight but noticeable partiality
- a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- pitching dangerously to one side
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- A slope or inclination.
- (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- (uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A tilt hammer.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
verb
- make a jump forward or upward
- jump lightly
- traverse as if by a short airplane trip
- jump across
- move quickly from one place to another
- travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
- (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
- (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
- (transitive) To jump onto, or over
- (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
- (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
- (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
- (informal) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
- (intransitive) To gather hops.
noun
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- an informal dance where popular music is played
- (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- (informal, figurative) A brief period of development or progress.
- (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
- A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
- (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
- A jump on one leg.
- A short jump.
- A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- (Internet) Synonym of half-op.
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- cause to move back and forth
- be excellent or outstanding
- (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
- (intransitive) To have people dancing and enjoying rock music.
- (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- To pelt with rocks; to stone.
- (intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.
- (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
- (slang, ambitransitive, euphemistic) To make love to or have sex (with).
- (intransitive, stative) To be cool.
- (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
noun
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- pitching dangerously to one side
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- (countable) Distaff.
- (CB radio slang) A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
- (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- The striped bass.
- (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
- (informal, cricket) A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- The huss or rock salmon.
- (British, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- (colloquial) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- (US, basketball, slang) A basketball.
- (South Africa, slang, derogatory) An Afrikaner.
- (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- (US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
- (curling) Synonym of stone.
- (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- (music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
- (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- get rid of
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
noun
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- cause to move back and forth
- win approval or support for
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- (transitive) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
- To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
- (transitive) To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
- To have weight or influence.
- (intransitive) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
- (transitive) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; to warp.
- To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
noun
- controlling influence
- pitching dangerously to one side
- A rocking or swinging motion.
- Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- Rule; dominion; control; power.
- (automotive) The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
- Synonym of sweet flag (“Acorus calamus”)
- Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
- A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
verb
adj
- (anatomy, zootomy) Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- At the same level in hierarchy or rank, especially pertaining to a movement that does not involve a change in rank, status, or level.
- (physics) Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (phonetics, phonology) (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to speech sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tongue, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
- (pathology) Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- (UK) Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- situated at or extending to the side
- lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body
noun
- A lateral canal, a canal built alongside an existing stream.
- (American football) A lateral pass.
- (business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- (linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer
verb
- move by turning over or rotating
- boil vigorously
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- show certain properties when being rolled
- flatten or spread with a roller
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- begin operating or running
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- shape by rolling
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- (ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
- (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
- (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
- (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
- (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
- (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
- (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- (intransitive, video games) To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
- (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- (transitive) To create a customized version of.
- (ergative, slang) To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
- (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.
- (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- (programming) To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (computing) To generate a random number.
- (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
- (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- (ergative) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.
- (transitive, music) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
- (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
- (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
noun
- walking with a swaying gait
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- a list of names
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- the act of throwing dice
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- (programming) An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (firefighting) A 14-day deployment.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- That which is rolled up.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
verb
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
verb
noun
verb
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- cancel officially
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- rule against
- change radically
- (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
- (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
- (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
noun
verb
- shift or move by taking a step
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To dance.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
noun
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- remove oneself from an obligation
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make (someone) take a less aggressive position.
- (idiomatic) To withdraw from a commitment or position; back out.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- remove oneself from an obligation
- (idiomatic) To become less aggressive, particularly when one had appeared committed to act.
- (idiomatic) To lower the setting of.
- (literally) To move backwards away from something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, off.
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- establish as valid or genuine
- become or cause to become obstructed
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, of a blockage) To halt the flow or movement of something.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, informal) To fill up because of a backlog.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) If a property backs up to another property, that means it abuts or shares a border with another property.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.
verb
- move in an abrupt or headlong manner
- throw or cast away
- indulge oneself
- throw with force or recklessness
- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
- (intransitive, somewhat literary) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
- (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
noun
- a usually brief attempt
- a brief indulgence of your impulses
- the act of flinging
- An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
- (figuratively) An attempt, a try.
- A party, especially a dance party.
- A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
- An act of throwing, often violently.
- An act or period of unrestrained indulgence, enthusiasm, or both.
- (dance) A lively Scottish country dance.
verb
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
noun
adj
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- elevate onto skids
- apply a brake or skid to
- slide without control
- (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
- (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
- (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
noun
- a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- an unexpected slide
- one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
- (Internet slang) A stepchild.
- A pallet.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
- (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- (sports) A losing streak.
- (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A runner of a sled.
- (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
- (intransitive) To skid.
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
- simple past of slay
- (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
- (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
- (intransitive) To pivot.
- (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
noun
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- move smoothly along a surface
- (transitive) To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- (intransitive, finance) To decrease in amount or value.
- (music) To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- (intransitive, slang) To go; to move from one place or to another.
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
noun
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- sloping channel through which things can descend
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- (Australia, informal) Removable rank insignia worn on epaulettes of army uniform.
- Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”).
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (footwear) A sandal that is backless and open-toed.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (vulgar slang) A promiscuous woman, slut.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A mechanism, or portion of one, consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
noun
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
adv
prep
adv
- with a forward motion
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration
- in a state required for something to function or be effective
- (infrequent in the US) Later.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
- (snooker) Of a ball, into a pottable position.
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
- To an operating state.
adj
- in operation or operational
- (of events) planned or scheduled
- (euphemistic) Menstruating.
- (chiefly UK, informal, chiefly in the negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
- (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
- (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
- (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
- (chiefly in the negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
- Fitted; covering or being worn.
- (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
- (e.g. of points in a game) Available; remaining.
- (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
noun
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- At or in (a geographical location or position).
- At (a relative spatial position).
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Serving as a member of.
- Under the influence of (a drug, or something that is causing drug-like effects).
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- (snooker) In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).
- (also often 'upon') Arrived or coming into the presence of.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At (an instant or cusp).
- Aboard (a mode of transport, especially public transport, or transport that one sits astride or uses while standing).
- Expressing figurative placement, burden, or attachment.
- At (a certain position within a sequence).
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything By means of; with.
- Covering.
- (mathematics) Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- (mathematics, uncommon) Divided by.
- (especially Ireland) Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- (UK) At (a certain value or level).
- With verbs describing an action of pushing, pulling, pressing, etc., designates the thing to which force is applied.
- (also often 'upon') At the time of (and often because of).
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Because of; upon the basis of (something not yet confirmed as true).
- (informal) In the possession of.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- (philosophy, logic) According to, from the standpoint of; (expressing what must follow, whether accepted or not, if a given premise or system is assumed true).
- (UK, especially in sports reporting) At (a given time after the start of something).
- Near; adjacent to; alongside; just off.
- Paid for by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- (especially when numbers of combatants or competitors are specified) Against; in opposition to.
- At or during the date or day of.
- (mathematics) Having as identical domain and codomain.
- (nautical) In the direction of (some part of one's vessel), to within 45 degrees.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Indicating a means of subsistence or sustenance.
- (mathematics) Generated by.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- (informal, chiefly in set phrases) Ellipsis of I swear on: on my life, on God, on everything, etc.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
verb
adv
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.
- On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- in the area or vicinity
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- all around or on all sides
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
adj
prep
- (figurative) On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.
- On one’s person; nearby the person.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.
verb
prep
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- While doing an activity involving (something), especially while consuming.
- (informal, for 'over at/in/on') At or near (a location seen as 'across' from the speaker's location).
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Across, from one side to the other.
- Expressing causation: due to, as the result of.
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- To a greater degree than.
- On the other side of.
- In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- Through or around all the parts of.
- Across (something) and then downwards.
- (mathematics) Divided by.
- Concerning or regarding.
- Above; higher than; further up than.
- (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- (music, more common in speech) Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
- During or throughout (a time period).
- More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.
- On top of; in such a way as to cover.
- (in certain collocations) As compared to.
- Across, so as to pass above.
- Through or via (a particular transmission medium).
adv
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
- Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
- So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
- On top of something, or so as to cover something.
- (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Across from one side of something to the other.
- Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
- So as to pass above.
- (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
- So as to fold towards or onto itself.
- From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
- See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
- So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
- Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
- Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
- To a future time.
- beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position
- at or to a point across intervening space etc.
- throughout a period of time
- over the entire area
- throughout an area
adj
- (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
- (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.
- (botany) Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- Having surmounted an obstacle.
- Surplus to requirements.
- Finished; ended; concluded.
- (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.
- having come or been brought to a conclusion
intj
noun
- (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
- (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
- (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- of a path e.g.
noun
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- the act of winding or twisting